Storm from the East

About 8,300 – this was the number of people representing 69 different countries participating in this year’s fair. They had come to the French Riviera to meet their counterparts and colleagues for the three days of the event (November 13th to 15th). Some of them they were meeting for the first time, and with others they were tightening their cooperation. Was it a success? I had hardly just arrived in Cannes when I heard the opinion of some of the regular attendees that there seemed to be fewer tenants this year. On the yacht of Polish shopping centre developer Gemini Holding I heard that there were fewer partners this time for negotiations, but the meetings they were having were more concrete. The fact is that the Polish Council of Shopping Centers, which unites the Polish retail sector (the developers and tenants of malls as well as companies connected with the industry), did not even have a stand this year. Despite being somewhat few and far between, the Poles who were at